Vital Jacket®

Mobile ECG in a T-Shirt

The Vital Jacket® HWM is a mobile technology designed to continuously monitor electrocardiogram (ECG) wave and heart rate. Incorporated into a comfortable and washable shirt, it is used in a range of applications from high level sport to fitness to  health applications.

Vital Jacket® creates a new freedom of movement for the user that takes sports ECG testing to a new level and makes measuring on the move practical for the sports environment. Using patented technology, this non invasive device negates the need to be hooked up to stationary ECG equipment and endless wires and will prove a huge cost saving when measured against traditional forms of ECG monitoring equipment.

'While heart rate monitoring is fairly standard in elite sport, the Vital Jacket® takes it to the next level by providing ECG data.
The t-shirt format is a major breakthrough as athletes will have freedom of movement while being monitored. Testing an athlete for example on a treadmill becomes much easier with Vital Jacket®. Data is collected in real time on the SD memory card and sent to a lap top using Bluetooth, without the hassle of big machines and wires.

'The t-shirt can also be worn in training and data can be reviewed retrospectively. So not only are you now able to test under laboratory conditions you can test athletes in the performance arena. Vital Jacket® allows for a much closer look at the heart and how it is functioning.'

Professor Greg Whyte, Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at the Research Institute for Sport + Exercise Science, Liverpool John Moores University and Director of the CRY Centre for Sports Cardiology, at the Olympic Medical Institute, Northwick Park.

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